Temperature Rise: The Impacts of Extreme Heat On Your Brain and Mental Health.
When the temperature spikes, so too do suicide rates, crime, and violence. Twitter sees hate tweets and online aggression increase during heatwaves, along with phrasing that researchers have linked to anxiety and depression. How best can we understand the mental effects of extreme heat? Our very language captures the confluence of heat and emotion—when we […]
World Environment Day 2022: 4 Ways to Contribute to #OnlyOneEarth
How much do you know about World Environment Day? Like every other element —the human body, an animal farm, utensils, and so on— the environment also requires regular cleaning to retain its beauty. One of the ways to keep the environment is by maintaining and constantly improving it, even though it is easy to get […]
World Wildlife Day 2022: Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration
World Wildlife Day (WWD) is celebrated annually on March 3, and this year’s event is themed “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”. The celebrations seek to draw attention to the conservation status of some of the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora, and to drive discussions towards imagining and implementing solutions to […]
Humanity and Biological Diversity; A Ying Yang Situation.
Biological diversity is often understood in terms of the wide variety of plants, animals and microorganisms, but it also includes genetic differences within each species. For example, between varieties of crops and breeds of livestock and the variety of ecosystems (lakes, forest, deserts, agricultural landscapes) that host multiple kind of interactions among their members (humans, […]